''England'' is dead and being british is dying.

British in the sense that you are a citizen of Britain, or British in the sense that you are a member of the white, British indigenous population?

I don't mean it in a racist way at all, but you're not truly British if you're non-white. Not because black, asian, or oriental people are inferior, nothing like that.

Simply because I associate British with being a member of the white, indigenous population. British as an ethnicity is separate from British as a nationality, IMO.

I don't care what colour someone is, I'd rather a black person immigrated here, worked, paid taxes etc than a white person who contributes nothing on the dole. I do however want to preserve British culture...

There are a fair few people in this country whose family has (for the most part) been here much longer than that thanks to the slave trade, or from colonies we once controlled, and I'll bet you that people like the OP will take one look at them and tell them they're not British.

How much of their family needs to have been here that long to count, though? For example, me. As far as we can tell, my entire family has lived in the home counties for yonks - except one german great grandmother. Am I still British?

being born in a dog house dont make you a dog

so please stop trying to be someone you're not

Also what exactly do you mean by British culture? Examples por favor?

If I'm being totally honest, I cannot wait till I graduate from university. Then, I will hottail out of here to the US or Australia. Partly because I dislike the social structure here- e.g. the amount of Oxbridge entrants coming from private schools and the "posh" people of Britain. But also because of the laid back lifestyle and that people are not directly out to get you.
If this country changed then I would stay, but it seems that the transition into a massively cosmopolitan country is fast becoming. I heard that, in a borough in Birmingham, over 80% of the students at a primary school were Asian. We are losing our integrity and credibility in this country. Immigration needs to be changed. Quick.

So how far back does this have to go? All humans originally came from Africa. Otherwise, which one of the many times we've been invaded and our ethnic makeup totally transformed is the start of "Britishness"? The original celts? The romans? Saxons? Vikings? Normans?

Please, enlighten me.

Also what exactly do you mean by British culture? Examples por favor?

I agree that Britain has recently become insanely multicultural - but how exactly is this a bad thing? Multiculturalism is the route away from racism and racial stereotypes, and it has given us an opportunity to redeem ourselves after the centuries we've spent pillaging other people's land. In our day and age, blood is absolutely meaningless. We identify ourselves with the society and the setting we grew up in, and the values we were raised upon.

I do understand you on one point, however, and will augment it with this fact: The UK and the US are both equally overrun with immigrants. However, americans have a MUCH better idea of what it means to be American than the brits have of what it means to be British.

There is no reason we can't be multicultural, but we have failed to successfully merge these cultures and create true national unity. The UK is made up of a patchwork of ethnicities, from the indigenous white brits to the afro-caribbean to the pakistani to the chinese to the indian. Rather than reverting back to a state of unipolar ethnicity, would it not be better for us to focus on mixing it all up and creating a new, strong, diverse but proudly unified British identity?

why is it a non sequitur? Long before you were around, when Britain was more ye olde 'real' British , the royal family were DIRECTLY GERMAN.

ok? so what's your point ? I was trying to emphasize the fact that she's not 'British', and you've just confirmed that

She is British - she was born in Britain. Her blood-line traces back to William I, regardless of foreign consorts.

And, what a foolish logic. I think you will find that a large proportion of British people have mixed ancestry.

If I'm being totally honest, I cannot wait till I graduate from university. Then, I will hottail out of here to the US or Australia. Partly because I dislike the social structure here- e.g. the amount of Oxbridge entrants coming from private schools and the "posh" people of Britain. But also because of the laid back lifestyle and that people are not directly out to get you.
If this country changed then I would stay, but it seems that the transition into a massively cosmopolitan country is fast becoming. I heard that, in a borough in Birmingham, over 80% of the students at a primary school were Asian. We are losing our integrity and credibility in this country. Immigration needs to be changed. Quick.

I don't think you can merge cultures. You only need to look at parts of Birmingham and Bradford to see that the ethnic population isn't spread out. They don't assimilate themselves into British culture. They simply create a community of their own ethnic group in a certain part of the town/city, and completely monopolise the area. Schools in Birmingham where white children are in the minority.

When the population is over 90% white, we must question why we have schools that are over 85% ethnic. Why is this? Why do they not assimilate into British culture?

Is our culture incompatible?

British in the sense that you are a citizen of Britain, or British in the sense that you are a member of the white, British indigenous population?

I don't mean it in a racist way at all, but you're not truly British if you're non-white. Not because black, asian, or oriental people are inferior, nothing like that.

Simply because I associate British with being a member of the white, indigenous population. British as an ethnicity is separate from British as a nationality, IMO.

I don't care what colour someone is, I'd rather a black person immigrated here, worked, paid taxes etc than a white person who contributes nothing on the dole. I do however want to preserve British culture...